00:01Hey Houston, we've had a problem here.
00:06Can I say again please?
00:08Houston, we've had a problem.
00:15It was plagued by bad omens and bad luck from the very beginning.
00:27Looks good here, flight go to green.
00:30We'll see you next time.
00:45Years before the flight, when the spacecraft was being built,
00:50a damaged liquid oxygen tank was installed in the spacecraft.
00:56The tank had been dropped on the factory floor, a little piece of plumbing,
01:03and prevented the normal procedure for removing oxygen after a routine test prior to the flight.
01:11And then on the day before the flight, we filled up the tank again with liquid oxygen,
01:17and it was a bomb waiting to go off.
01:26This is the crew of the Model 13.
01:29I wish everybody there a nice evening, and we're just about ready to close out our inspection of Aquarius,
01:36and send you back for a pleasant evening at Odyssey.
01:40Good night.
01:41Actually, it was the end of the work day.
01:43We were fixing to go to bed after we did a few things to clean up,
01:46and the next morning go into lunar orbit and get ready to land.
01:50Then there was a large bang.
01:52When the explosion first occurred, we didn't know what happened.
01:57And that just rang through the metallic structure.
02:01Houston, we've had a problem.
02:03I was in the lunar module, and then I went down into the command module.
02:06We may have had an instrumentation problem, flight.
02:08Roger.
02:09And we had a pretty large bang associated with the caution and warning there.
02:14We started to look at the instrument panels.
02:16One of the quantity gauges of one of the tanks was zero.
02:20That was the tank that had blew.
02:22I then looked out the window and saw escaping at a high rate of speed,
02:27it gassy as oxygen, because the explosion occurred on the first, the damaged tank,
02:32but that also ruptured the second tank, just blew the entire side of the spacecraft off.
02:39My immediate feeling was just a sick feeling of pit of my stomach, a disappointment.
02:44I knew we had lost the landing.
02:46And from then on, it was not a third landing on the moon,
02:50but a survival of how to get home.
02:54Okay, I want you to double check my arithmetic to make sure we got a good course aligned.
02:58Go flight.
02:59How's the arithmetic?
03:00Standby, we're checking.
03:01At the time, it's scary as the devil, and we were handling something
03:08that we knew was out of control.
03:11And every team that came on was dealing with a major set of problems to deal with.
03:17They just jumped to the task, and they knew what they had to do.
03:22Okay, now let's everybody keep cool.
03:24We got LEM still attached.
03:26The LEM spacecraft's good, so if we need to get back home,
03:30we got LEM to do a good portion of it with.
03:37One of the biggest things we had to do in the dying moments of the electrical system
03:43in the command module was to transfer the guidance system.
03:49It transferred the angled numbers from the command module to the lunar module.
03:56And we only had about 15 minutes to do that.
04:02About 20 minutes after the explosion, it was obvious that we weren't coming to a landing in the moon.
04:09We were going to go around it.
04:10Glenn had already been down in the trench with the trajectory guys
04:13and came up with five trajectory return to Earth options.
04:18So we would have missed the Earth had we done nothing.
04:21So the first thing was to get us in the right direction to go around the moon.
04:26And that was the first maneuver we made.
04:29We used the landing engine, the engine we normally would have landed on the moon.
04:44Everybody seemed to be moving in the right directions without being directed.
04:50Everybody had a sense of what had to be done.
04:53The training guys brought the simulators up over there
04:56and the crews were over in the simulators tracking virtually everything they were doing.
05:00Every configuration change that was proposed to be done
05:04was already being worked over in the simulators there.
05:07So you started getting answers from all these various directions.
05:25The command module was very wet.
05:27There was water everywhere.
05:28On every, in the limb there's no inner walls.
05:31So you could see water on all the connectors, wire bundles, plumbing, every turn of glob of water.
05:38And the command module we actually had to get towels out to wipe off the instrument panel to see the
05:44instruments.
05:45We copied that report from Jim Lovell of service module separation at 138 hours.
05:51And there's one whole side of that spacecraft missing.
05:55Is that right?
05:57Okay, copy that.
06:00Farewell Aquarius and we thank you.
06:05So it was a question of getting this entire world geared and oriented to one single job.
06:13Get the crew home.
06:14So teamwork was necessary.
06:17Good leadership.
06:18Initiative.
06:19To think outside of the box when things go wrong, how do we repair them.
06:24Those are the three things that were absolutely necessary.
06:28I was most proud of being in this team that knew what they had to do.
06:35And there was no doubt about it.
06:38The team completely faced up to what had to be done.
06:42In this case, it was a survival challenge that we were faced with.
06:48So there you are.
06:49We pulled that off.
06:51In this case, we could see it three miles from the top of thehand
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